David A. Stewart

Outside of Eurythmics, Stewart has written and produced songs for artists such as Ringo Starr, Stevie Nicks, Mick Jagger and Tom Petty.

Stewart studied at City of Sunderland College. The recorded working language is English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are pop rock, synth-pop, new wave and folk music. Work by David A. Stewart is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art.

• Name — Dave Stewart • Alias — Jean Guiot • Birth Name — David Allan Stewart • Born — 9 September 1952 • Birthplace — Sunderland, England • Occupation — * Singer-songwriter • musician • record producer • Genre — * Pop rock • synth-pop • new wave • electronica • Instrument — * Guitar • vocals • bass guitar • keyboards • Years Active — 1971–present • Past Member Of — * The Tourists • Eurythmics • The Spiritual Cowboys • Vegas • Platinum Weird • SuperHeavy • Label — * RCA • Anxious • Surfdog • The Artist Network • Kobalt • Weapons of Mass Entertainment

Stewart was born in 1952 in Sunderland, England, son of John ("Jack") and Sadie Stewart. Distantly related both to the Dukes of Northumberland and to pirates, Stewart was from a middle-class, "well-off" family, with accountant parents; he "always wanted to play with the working-class kids, but they'd always call [him] 'richie' and whack [him] on the head with cricket bats and things." His father was a "keen harmonica player" with a "dedication to music of all types", having "invested in the latest hi-tech stereo system and wired it up to every room in the house." He attended Barnes Infants and Junior School and Bede Grammar School for Boys. Stewart began "dropping acid" by the age of 15 and carried on taking it up to three times a week during his teenage years. He later told The Guardian that "everything changed at that moment. It's a speeded-up version of sitting on a mountain for 60 years and meditating. 'Ah, now I get it.' The trouble is, it doesn't last". Whilst still in his teens, Stewart secured a record deal as part of folk-rock band Longdancer. Despite being signed to Elton John's record label, The Rocket Record Company, they did not achieve commercial success. He also collaborated with Brian Harrison to produce an EP on the Sunderland Multicord label (label number MULT-SH-1, producer Ken McKenzie), recording two songs ("Girl" and "Green She Said") from a school musical production written by English teacher Dick Bradshaw, one traditional number ("A Blacksmith Courted Me") and a song written by Dave and Brian ("Deep December"). After leaving Wearside, Stewart spent several years living in squats in London. In late 1976, he was introduced to Annie Lennox by Paul Jacobs. Soon, Stewart and Lennox became romantically involved. By 1977, the pair had teamed up with Sunderland musician Peet Coombes, releasing a single on Logo Records as the Catch. The band then developed into the Tourists, who enjoyed modest success, including a hit in 1979 with a cover of the Dusty Springfield hit "I Only Want to Be with You".

The Tourists split up in 1980, as did Stewart and Lennox, though the pair continued to work together. They formed a new musical project named Eurythmics. After a string of hit singles and albums, the duo split in 1990, but reunited in 1999 for the album Peace and another world tour. Lennox and Stewart worked together again in 2005, recording two new tracks for the greatest hits package Ultimate Collection, released to coincide with Eurythmics' 25th anniversary.

section When Eurythmics dissolved in 1990, Stewart moved to France and immediately released a self-titled album with his new band, The Spiritual Cowboys, which reached No. 38 on the UK album charts. The song "Party Town" was featured in the 1990 film Flatliners. A second album, Honest, followed in 1991. Both records went Gold in France, where Stewart concentrated his efforts. In 1992, Stewart collaborated with singer Terry Hall (formerly of The Specials, Fun Boy Three and The Colourfield) on the project Vegas. The duo released one self-titled album but this was commercially unsuccessful, though one of the singles from the album ("Possessed") made the UK Top 40. In 1993, Stewart appeared in an Apple Inc. advertisement for the Power Macintosh in which he riffed on the word "power". He also had a small cameo as a computer hacker in the 1995 film Hackers. In 1995, Stewart released a solo album titled Greetings from the Gutter. The album was not a commercial success, peaking at number 93 in the UK, though Stewart scored a minor UK hit with the single "Heart Of Stone" which reached number 36. He then released another album, Sly-Fi, in 1998, which was first made available on the internet. In 1995, Stewart appeared in an advert for BT in which he sang the track 'Secrets' which was made specifically for BT to be used in the advert. In November 2002, Stewart worked with former South African president Nelson Mandela. Stewart came up with the idea of turning Mandela's prison number into a telephone number then wrote and recorded songs with Paul McCartney, Bono and Edge and various others that you could only hear if you dialled this number and whilst listening you were donating. He then began organising the 46664 campaign and series of concerts in the fight against HIV/AIDS in South Africa. In 2007, Stewart announced on his MySpace page that he would be playing live concerts showcasing his entire career. According to the announcement, he was to be accompanied by various guest musicians as well as a 30-piece orchestra. Additionally, Stewart has stated that for the first time in many years, he has been writing new songs on his guitar, although he had no plans at that time for a new solo album. On the project, The Dave Stewart Songbook, he wrote a large coffee table-size book full of stories and photographs and also re-recorded 21 hit songs which have been co-written or co-produced by him during the past decades and were originally released by artists such as No Doubt, Shakespears Sister, Bryan Ferry, Celine Dion, Bob Geldof, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Jon Bon Jovi and Eurythmics. Also included is the song "American Prayer" written by Stewart with Bono of U2, for which Dave Stewart shot a video clip in support of the campaign of US presidential candidate Barack Obama, featuring various film and music stars, which premiered on YouTube on 23 August 2008. Stewart also released a new solo track, Let's Do It Again, in 2008. In July 2010, Stewart recorded his first solo album of new material since 1998's Sly-Fi. Entitled The Blackbird Diaries after the Nashville, Tennessee studio where it was recorded, the album includes duets with Stevie Nicks, Martina McBride, Colbie Caillat and The Secret Sisters. Stewart has made a film of the making of the album and also filmed a live concert in Nashville at The Belcourt Theatre on 9 December 2010. In May 2011 it was announced that Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones had formed a new supergroup called SuperHeavy which includes Dave Stewart, Joss Stone, Damian Marley and A. R. Rahman. In May 2012 it was announced that Stewart would be playing four UK shows in September 2012 to support the release of his new album The Ringmaster General. In 2013, Stewart released the album Lucky Numbers, which was recorded on a boat in the South Pacific for 12 days. In October 2017 Stewart appeared on a German TV programme marking the 40th year of the stage career of the German singer Nena with whom he performed their jointly written track, "Be My Rebel".

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Stewart wrote the musical Barbarella, based on the 1968 film, which premiered in Vienna on 11 March 2004. Stewart later wrote music and lyrics (with Glen Ballard) for Ghost the Musical, which premiered at the Manchester Opera House in March 2011, ahead of a transfer to the Piccadilly Theatre in London's West End in June the same year; the show subsequently opened on Broadway in 2012. In 2021 Stewart teamed up with Joss Stone to write and produce a new stage production of The Time Traveller's Wife, based on the Audrey Niffenegger novel of the same name. The show received its premiere in September 2022 at the Storyhouse in Chester, before transferring to London's west end, where it began previews at the Apollo Theatre in October 2023.

Though most of Stewart's own music (specifically with Eurythmics) was released via the RCA/BMG label, he also formed his own record label in the 1980s called Anxious Records. The label has included a roster of artists such as Terry Hall, Londonbeat, Chris Braide and Curve vocalist Toni Halliday.

In 2006, Stewart resurrected Platinum Weird, a band he purportedly formed in the early 1970s in London with singer Erin Grace, but which was in reality created in 2004. According to the fictional account, Erin was moody and mysterious, and disappeared shortly before the band's eponymous album was due to be released in 1974. Platinum Weird features noted songwriter Kara DioGuardi on vocals and the band has re-recorded some of the fictional original band's songs and some new ones as well for an upcoming album. The album was produced by John Shanks. In July 2006, VH1 premiered a mockumentary entitled Rock Legends – Platinum Weird, an examination of the band's unusual story, complete with cameo appearances from such rock legends as Mick Jagger, Annie Lennox, Ringo Starr and Elton John, all reminiscing about the former band's short-lived heyday and their impressions of the mysterious Erin Grace. The album was further promoted by a series of bogus World Wide Web fan sites, some of which are registered by the New Media Department of Interscope Records and hosted on the same server as interscope.com, and related false documents for the "lost" group.

In 2021 Stewart co-founded SongBits, a web3 music platform that focuses on fan-artist engagement.

Stewart was married from 1972 to 1977 to Pamela Wilkinson. He was in a relationship with Annie Lennox for three years in the late 1970s, before they formed the Eurythmics. In 1987, Stewart married Irish singer Siobhan Fahey (of Bananarama and Shakespears Sister. The couple have two sons, Sam (guitarist with the group Lo Moon) and Django. They divorced in 1996. On 4 August 2001, Stewart married Dutch photographer Anoushka Fisz, with whom he has two daughters, Kaya and Indya. In 2004, Stewart and Fisz moved to Hollywood so Stewart could concentrate on his soundtrack work. They renewed their marriage vows in 2013. He is a Sunderland A.F.C. supporter and still watches their games. As a child, his ambition was to play for the club. He accompanied his daughter, Kaya, during her audition for the 21st season of American Idol, which aired on 26 March 2023.

• Year — Album — Notes • 1989 — Lily Was Here (soundtrack) — David A. Stewart • 1990 — Dave Stewart and the Spiritual Cowboys — Dave Stewart and the Spiritual Cowboys • 1991 — Honest — Dave Stewart and the Spiritual Cowboys • 1994 — Greetings from the Gutter • 1998 — Sly-Fi • 2008 — The Dave Stewart Songbook Vol. 1 • 2011 — The Blackbird Diaries • 2012 — The Ringmaster General • 2013 — Lucky Numbers — Guest stars on the album including Martina McBride, Karen Elson, Vanessa Amorosi, Holly Quin-Ankrah, Laura Michelle Kelly and Ann Marie Calhoun • 2022 — Ebony McQueen • 2023 — Cloud Walking — Dave Stewart & Hannah Koppenburg • 2025 — Dave Does Dylan — Dave Stewart

List of singles, with selected chart positions • Year — Single — Peak chart positions — Album • UK — NLD — BEL (FL) — FRA — GER — AUT — SWE — NOR — AUS — US • 1989 — "Lily Was Here" (feat. Candy Dulfer) — 6 — 1 — 2 — 13 — 17 — 18 — 10 — 2 — 10 — 11 — Lily Was Here • 1990 — "Jack Talking" — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 57 — — • 1991 — "Love Shines" — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 144 — — • "Crown of Madness" — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 192 — — • "Jute City" — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Jute City • 1994 — "Heart of Stone" — 36 — — — — — — — 52 — 12 — 31 — — — 190 — — — Greetings from the Gutter • 1995 — "Jealousy" — 86 — — — — — — — 83 — — — — — — — 169 — — • "Secret" — 89 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — single only • 1998 — "Happy to Be Here" — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — SlyFi • "Cookie" (feat. Candy Dulfer) — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Cookie's Fortune • 1999 — "All Over the World" (Cricket World Cup '99 official theme song) — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — single only • 2004 — "Old Habits Die Hard" (with Mick Jagger and Sheryl Crow) — 45 — 60 — 10 — — — 62 — — — — — — — — — — — Alfie • "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released.

With Anastacia • Anastacia (Epic Records, 2004) • It's a Man's World (BMG, 2012) With Jimmy Cliff • Fantastic Plastic People (Artist Network, 2002) With Billy Ray Cyrus • Back to Tennessee (Lyric Street, 2009) With Bob Dylan • Knocked Out Loaded (Columbia Records, 1986) With Aretha Franklin • Who's Zoomin' Who? (Arista Records, 1985) With Bryan Ferry • Frantic (Virgin Records, 2002) • Olympia (Virgin Records, 2010) With Nina Hagen • Revolution Ballroom (Mercury Records, 1993) With Daryl Hall • Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine (RCA Records, 1986) With Hall & Oates • Change of Season (Arista Records, 1990) • Marigold Sky (Push Records, 1997) With Geri Halliwell • Scream If You Wanna Go Faster (EMI, 2001) With Mick Jagger • Primitive Cool (Columbia Records, 1987) With Jon Bon Jovi • Destination Anywhere (Mercury Records, 1997) With Martina McBride • Eleven (Republic Nashville, 2011) With Stevie Nicks • In Your Dreams (Reprise Records, 2011) • 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault (Reprise Records, 2014) With Sinéad O'Connor • Faith and Courage (Atlantic Records, 2000) With Orianthi Panagaris • Heaven in This Hell (Robo Records, 2013) With Katy Perry • One of the Boys (Capitol Records, 2008) With Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers • Southern Accents (MCA Records, 1985) With Carina Round • Slow Motion Addict (Interscope Records, 2007) With Feargal Sharkey • Feargal Sharkey (A&M Records, 1985) With Carly Simon • Letters Never Sent (Arista Records, 1994) With Ringo Starr • Liverpool 8 (Capitol Records, 2008) • Y Not (Universal Music Enterprises, 2010) • Ringo 2012 (Universal Music Enterprises, 2012) • Postcards from Paradise (Universal Music Enterprises, 2015) • Give More Love (Universal Music Enterprises, 2017) • What's My Name (Universal Music Enterprises, 2019) With Joss Stone • LP1 (Surfdog Records, 2011) • Never Forget My Love (Bay Street, 2022) With Shania Twain • Queen of Me (Republic Records, 2023) With The Wilsons • The Wilsons (Polygram Records, 1997) With Robin Zander • Robin Zander (Interscope Records, 1993)

In 2000, Stewart received the O2 Silver Clef Award. He was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005, and won the Music Producers Guild Outstanding Contribution to UK Music Award in 2015. Eurythmics were nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017. Eurythmics were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2022. • Award — Year — Nominee(s) — Category — Result — Ref. References • BMI London Awards — 2003 — "Underneath It All" — Song of the Year • Pop Award —

• 1983 — Eurythmics — Best New Artist • 1984 — Sweet Dreams (Video album) — Grammy Award for Best Music Video Long Form • 1985 — "Would I Lie to You?" — Best Rock Performance by Group or Duo with Vocal • "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" — Best R&B Performance by a Group or Duo with Vocal • 1986 — "Missionary Man" — Best Rock Performance by a Group or Duo with Vocal • 1989 — "Savage" — Grammy Award for Best Music Video Long Form • 1990 — "We Too Are One" — Grammy Award for Best Music Video Long Form